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Jacob Gordon

Writer, host of TreeHugger Radio / Brooklyn, New York

Jacob Gordon started writing for TreeHugger in 2005 and is currently the host and creator of TreeHugger Radio. He’s gone to Japan, Sweden, Brazil and beyond writing about cars for MSN Autos, and has contributed to Dwell, GOOD, and other publications made out of paper. Before winding up in journalism, Jacob worked for American Apparel, modeling, copywriting, and eventually managing environmental programs for the largest garment factory in the US. Jacob was born in Boston, studied at Bard College, and has lived in Los Angeles, Nashville, and now Brooklyn. He’s a lazy cook, a flexitarian (mostly veggies but he’ll gladly finish that Reuben for you), a steel guitar player, and occasional tai chi teacher. Jacob is also the founder of Nemonics Media, an Internet startup dedicated to making reading more social.

Latest Stories from Jacob Gordon - Page 7

Popping some wood or bamboo on an electronic accessory (we saw both at this year's Consumer Electronics Show) is certainly not an automatic recipe for a greener, more earth-friendly product . But budding audio company Thinksound has gone several steps

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Woven from natural rattan and water hyacinth, the Bulb chair from Onyx looks like its namesake, but also integrates one: an LED light is nestled in its proboscis, giving the occupant a gentle halo of illumination. Conceived by Belgian

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It's called Causeworld and here's how it works: download the app for your iPhone or Android device, walk into a store and "check in" on your phone (geotagging helps determine where you're at), as you earn Karmas you spend them on causes

Images: Arzu Studio HopeWhat could holler good taste and social conscience like a fair trade rug designed by architect Zaha Hadid? Since 2003, a non-profit called Arzu Studio Hope has been working with women weavers in Afghanistan to create high-end

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Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems

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The list of features is enough to make your eyes cross: waterproof, twice as thin as an iPhone, semi-flexible 8.5" by 11" touchscreen, wireless induction charging, and energy consumption under one watt. And it will cost a mere $75. At

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Magnetic repulsion is a force that can make things levitate. This is the principal behind maglev trains and an emerging breed of wind turbine. The advantage of magnetic levitation is the fact that physical friction is cut

Image: Adrian TomineClean stoves have hit the big time, or at least attracted the attention of the EPA, World Health Organization, United Nations, and Oakridge National Laboratory, all of whom have taken an interest in cheap, hi-tech stoves and their

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Bicycle Design is always trawling up remarkable cycle oddities. This one, the work of UK artist Ben Wilson, is modeled off the kids toys Ben remembers from youth. Though more art than daily mule, ARTIKCAR is steered by leaning the

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After a year of engineering, modeling, and trials, the world's largest Christmas star now hovers above the A9 Autobahn near

The climate summit in Denkmark, known as Cop15, has drawn to a cloudy close. Now it's time to try and make sense of what actually happened, who did what, and how the results will shape our troubled relationship with the planetary climate. This week, two

As we were reminded in Copenhagen, daily cycling is a just a normal part of city living for many Europeans. In the US, we complain about bad bike lanes and trigger-happy motorists, but the real problem is more likely the limited clothing selection. It's

You're on your computer right now (or maybe your phone); either way, reading TreeHugger is using hard-won electricity, and your device of choice will someday (probably soon) be scrapped or traded in for a better one. And who could blame you?
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Mark Rembert and Taylor Stuckert returned to their homes in Clinton County, Ohio to find economic devastation. DHL, a mainstay employer of the area, had pulled out, leaving a jobless void. The two friends responded by doing what seemed logical: they

Not your typical architecture firm, Sheila Kennedy and her cohorts at KVA MATx are stripping apart the built environment and reassembling it with an eye for flexibility. Her vision: a world of distributed power in which solar potential is woven into the

Andrew Rasiej is the man behind Personal Democracy Forum, a website and yearly conference focussed on the way that technology and politics intersect. In front of this kinda eerie painting (his choice), Rasiej takes on our battery of questions on nuclear